The team at HotHardware decided to RAID up not two but three WD VelociRaptor drives in a RAID 5 configuration with an Areca PCIe X8 hardware RAID card, to see what the numbers looked like. This is only a quick-take on read performance but it certainly gives you a sense of scale and what these drives are capable of in the right environment.

So… Where's the article? I see a decent teaser for something, but… Other than two artificial benchmarks… Oh. Wait. That's it? Wow. "Fast hard drives are even faster in artificial benchmarks when RAIDed together. News…

Researchers make arrays of individually addressable capacitors for high-density storage. It could prove an important development as hard drive densities reach their limits.

As a side note, and possibly more remarkably, the researchers were able to demonstrate that something called substrate clamping exists. These materials, in addition to being ferroelectric, are also piezoelectric—they expand and contract…

Five USB utilites that extend the use of your USB drive over portable applications.

Yep, thats possible, thanks to a utility called USB Autorun. Download USB Autorun (direct link), and use the options in the system tray icon to build an autorun.inf file. Youll have to specify which app should be run automatically,…

Great idea to protect your digital family picture album.

Auburn (CA) ? Most small businesses and consumers do not have elaborate disaster recovery plans in place, which means that their data may be at risk, especially if backups are stored nearby. Fire and water can wipe out at least portions of…

We’re big fans of SATA HDD docks that let you quickly access whole drives like noisy, overgrown memory sticks. An earlier unit offered just USB connectivity to your Mac or PC, later adding eSATA before rounding out its options with FireWire. Now we have a new model that still accepts bare 2.5- and 3.5-inch disks on top, but ditches the FireWire…

First. For HDDs use Scythe Quiet Drive. Its a life saver when it comes to cutting noise. I've been using it for a while now and my drives worked nicely making me forget how they sound.Second. Water cooling is GREAT for videocards with annoying…

Samsung has introduced a 256GB solid-state drive that promises to kickstart the industry with twice the storage and twice the speed of earlier disks while also costing less to manufacture than past models — and having a chance of landing in future Apple notebooks.Simply called the 256GB FlashSSD, the Serial ATA drive reads in-order data at 200MB/s

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UltimateDefrag is revolutionary defrag software that not only lets you defrag, but also considers a more important phenomenon, and that is, the placement of files and folders on your hard drive.

If you decide that you do not want to use all of the advanced options and simply want a fast reliable defrag, then you can also use UltimateDefrag for that purpose only. Simply select the AUTO option and you’ll be enjoying what is…

“Maybe you're a spy or you've got schematics for the next hot gadget locked away on your hard drive, but either way you're going to want to lock your files down. ”

I've seen external cases like this before. Usually the case encrypts the data on the drive that can only be decrypted inside that case … which was one of the complaints I read about that original case … what happens when you loose the key?…

It's well known that failed hard drives can be recovered, but few people actually use a recovery service because they're expensive and not always successful. Geek.com has an article walking through a drive recovery handled by DriveSavers. The recovery team did not give away many secrets, but they did reveal a number of insights into the process.

Still not believing that it was time to throw in the towel, I remembered a company that specializes in recovering dead hard drives: DriveSavers. I dialed them up and after answering a series of questions, I was quoted a range with an estimated…

If Ubuntu 8.04 presents so few problems for Mrs RD, it must be doing pretty much everything right, mustn’t it?

MRS Red Devil is, without being unkind, not the most computer literate person on the planet.She is a wonderful wife and mother, a faithful friend, kind and generous with her time and energy – and very cute, to boot.But when it comes to…

Funny concept, Lenovo — manila envelope stuffing was just ripe for a demonstration of what all you typical MacBook Air user is going to need on hand.

That's a good one. Admittedly, IBM thinkpads are some sweet looking hardware, but I wouldn't run vista if they paid me a consulting fee. We should start separating our hardware from our software and leave it to personal preference….

You can have both a Mac and a PC on a single computer, using Apple’s new Boot Camp software. Boot Camp lets you install Windows on your Mac in addition to Mac OS X.

The following post was originally published in Chapter 11 of our new book, Upgrade Your Life: The Lifehacker Guide to Working Smarter, Faster, Better. You can have both a Mac and a PC on a single computer, using Apple's new Boot Camp software….

Protect against viruses that infects executable files on a flash drive, creating a hidden autorun.inf file at the root of the pendrive using this USB Firewall.

While inserting your USB drive if you get a warning, you can click on the HOW AUTORUN.INF button to checkout the instructions in the autorun.inf file. If you see any malicious code or never have put up a autorun.inf file , simply click the DELETE…

A team of researchers claims to have come up with a power-efficient, scalable way to reliably store data with regular hard drives for an estimated 1400 years.

Santa Cruz (CA) ? Have you ever thought how vulnerable your data may be through the simple fact that you may be storing your entire digital life on a single hard drive? On single drive can hold tens of thousands of pictures, thousands of…